Can you buy GCs with GCs?

[FallenPixels]

I have done this before, but Zellers told me it was fraud

[MillieH]

You can do it at SDM.. just call head office first if you are nervous

[annedougherty]

I have done it at fortino's with PC GC's many a time because they sell heaps of different GC's

[alicia]

Zellers doesn't allow it... Probably because you get HBC points on all the GCs. So what would be stopping you from getting a $50 GC and continually purchasing a new GC every day to rack up the points.

As for SDM, yep they let it. I have done it a few times.

[princesskimmi]

I have also been told at Zellers that it was fraud only to ask for a manager and have the manager tell me that they have in the past had people buy large $$ GC's with stolen credit cards and then purchase new GCs for other stores etc with them. I exclaimed that I was in no way doing that and was still told no - I went to another location - I cashier profiled to a young not caring cashier who did it without any question.

[abbasgirl]

I buy Esso cards with Zellers gift cards all the time. You only get HBC points on cards from other stores, not Zellers, so there's no double dipping. I don't see how it could be fraud if it has money on it and you're using it to make a purchase at an HBC store. If it's fraud to use it to buy a gift card, it's fraud to use it to make any other purchase as well.

[Shwa Girl]

I have done this before, but Zellers told me it was fraud

I know that there is a problem with some people fraudulently obtaining gift cards.
Not you!
So Zellers is being super cautious.

At the supermarket where I worked, one year, they pulled some gift cards because there was an issue with fraud.

Buying gift cards with another gift card -- it's at the discretion of the store, unfortunately

[FallenPixels]

I went to a different Zellers and traded it in no problems

[anisa]

a chick at the BCC zellers told me i could trade in my points at customer service and get an HBC gift card... mosey over to the checkouts and use that HBC giftcard to buy other giftcards.

fraud my a$$. when the hell would something like that be fraudulant?? are they going to call the RCMP on you? pfft

[FallenPixels]

Pretty much, she was a real ^&^%$* about it too - but she also told the elderly customer behind me 'its your own fault if your daughter bought the wrong one, sort it out with her' on a return - so the attitude is just 'her' I guess.

The manager today said there are some you can't buy because of the way the system works but it was 4 really random ones I had never heard of plus paying your HBC credit card bill instore

[anisa]

Pretty much, she was a real ^&^%$* about it too - but she also told the elderly customer behind me 'its your own fault if your daughter bought the wrong one, sort it out with her' on a return - so the attitude is just 'her' I guess.

The manager today said there are some you can't buy because of the way the system works but it was 4 really random ones I had never heard of plus paying your HBC credit card bill instore

WHERE do they find these ppl? haha

is there some part in the zellers hiring guide that coaches managers on how to find the crabbiest, nastiest ppl?